First this is going to be long so get yourself a libation. Today’s hearing on ACB was a travesty.
Now ACB is a saint. Nobody should have to sit quietly and attentively and listen to the bullshit put up by the Dems. I know I couldn’t. She was incredible in listening to her clearly Intellectually inferiors ask inane questions that she couldn’t answer because it would violate judicial canons of ethics to create sound clips and talking points for political fund raising pleas.
I am really amazed that she sat with no notes while her accusers had to read their questions because they couldn’t do them on their own. Never before has any nominee been so far the intellectual superior of her questioners than today. Only Ted Cruz was anywhere close to her intellect. And I was particularly impressed because not only did she have no notes before her but she had no binders to refer to during the hearing. Now as one of you knows, at her age I could have done the same thing if questioned about my expertise but I would never been so confident as to have not have binders because I would never have trusted them to not misrepresent or misquote what I said. She’s awesome.
Now let’s talk about the areas of the questioning. The biggest focus was on Obamacare because when confirmed she will deal with a case on November 11th that could end Obamacare. None of the Dems dealt with the actual cesspool that was this ridiculous piece of legislation. Lest you forget, Obamacare was passed by an parliamentary slight of hand after Scott Brown won Ted, oh was there a woman I left to drown, Kennedy’s seat thus upholding a senate filibuster under the normal rules. And then Pelosi told us you had to pass it to find out what’s in it. Obama said if you like your plan or your doctors you can keep them. Voted the lie of the year. The website was a disaster and cost skyrocketed
To uphold this disaster Chief Justice Roberts rewrote the statute to say that the penalty for not buying health insurance was a tax and not a penalty even though Obama and his attorneys said it wasn’t. And now they want ACB to say he was right and that decision is unassailable. You know I have have already told you that the statute will implode without the mandate. She correctly refused to answer and I don’t understand how supposedly a majority of the present court could think the statute is severable from the mandate.
The Dems spent much of their time crying about people who would lose their health care if Obamacare is overturned. First that’s totally irrelevant. I know I’m a curmudgeon but that is totally beside the point. You don’t decide cases by crocodile tears. You decide cases by the statute at issue and Obamacare has always been unconstitutional. And so the effects on people who got something unconstitutionally is irrelevant. Let me posit this. Suppose a statute was passed that said white families had to pay a tax of one thousand dollars a month to black families and then later a Republican majority eliminated the tax and then the Dems said that would hurt black families that had relied on it. The only constitutionally correct answer is that’s too bad but doesn’t change the law.
Next they want to talk about Roe v. Wade. That decision was never grounded in strong constitutional principles. Even the notorious RBG said so. And I will say again that there is no way the founders or those responsible for the 14th Amendment would ever have dreamed that they would be supporting abortion. As I have said before, the states can allow abortion but it’s not a constitutional right.
And they also want to talk about Obergefell, the case that that said same sex marriage was a constitutional right. Nothing could be farther from the truth. I have no problem with states passing laws that allow it and would support them. Listen if you find love with someone of the same sex and want to marry them then I have no problem with that. Someone’s religion should not control your decision. However that should not be confused a constitutional right.
At the end of the day, ACB is one of the most outstanding nominees to the Supreme Court ever and the Dems know it. She will be confirmed